Author: geoff

The last two summers we’ve done road trips out west, and this year we hooked up the new trailer and went for round three. Christi wanted to visit Mesa Verde and New Mexico, and I wanted to go four wheeling with the 200 LCDC group again, so from there we…

This is one of my favorite modifications I’ve made to our new trailer so far. To be fair, I got the idea off the Lance Owners of America forum. While my work is specific to our 2015 Lance 2185 trailer, I suspect the mod would be similar in other models…

One of the best upgrades I did to our last camper was to install 200 watts of solar power in 2016. That upgrade let us camp for weeks off-the-grid out west, where dispersed camping and most of the campgrounds don’t have electricity. So when we bought a newer trailer this…

This spring we decided to sell our 2005 Forest River Surveyor 235RS camper and upgrade to a 2015 Lance 2185. The Surveyor served us well since purchasing it in 2012, but the boys are growing up and sharing a bed had meant more and more scuffling over space, blankets, and…

Last year it was Yellowstone. This year our summer road trip culminated in an awesome visit to the Grand Canyon. A bit of a late start, as I was dealing with some issues from adding larger tires and a 2″ lift to the truck, but in the end it only…

12 days, 3740 miles Sheep Mountain Table, near the Badlands Keyhole State Park at Sunset, Near Devil’s Tower Summit of the Beartooth Highway (10,947 ft) Glacial lake along the Beartooth Last scenic stop along the Beartooth Yellowstone, between Mammoth and Norris Snake River Road (4WD), near Grand Teton